Round 2 Outcomes Aboriginal Arts and Cultural Recipients

Create NSW Arts & Cultural Funding Program – Round 2 Outcomes

Aboriginal Arts and Cultural recipients (9) $451,200

Annual Organisations (1): $100,000
1. Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance Aboriginal Corporation Saltwater Freshwater Annual
Program 2020 ($100,000)

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The 2020 Saltwater Freshwater (SWFW) annual program will deliver arts and culture projects to the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, Biripi and Worimi nations. Projects include culture camps, weaving, exhibition and the Festival, all leading to skills development, maintenance and preservation of traditional practices, enabling inter-generational knowledge transfer from Elders to the youth.

Creative Koori Projects (7): $331,210
1. Bulabunmarra Projects Pty Ltd Employment of artists/artworkers and Elders for untitled
(transcription of country) ($118,860)

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A major international research project and exhibition examining the 1800–1803 French expedition to Australia and the colonial transportation, trade and translation of significant Australian material. The exhibition will occur in Paris in 2021 at Palais de Tokyo and Château de Malmaison, and tour to Artspace, Sydney, in 2022.

2. Mr Dale Collier Guyang Giiny ($20,000)

Guyang Giiny is a site-specific project that will be produced over an 18-month period

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using the traditional cultural practice of making fire to produce multiple audio-visual and sculptural outcomes. The presentation of this project comprises of 250 scorched sculptures within an immersive performance installation at Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival 2021.

3. Mr Mitch King Flow – a yarn about country and water ($20,000)

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Mitch King, Yaegl Bundjalung man, will present Flow, a one-man show inspired by community and country, and told through contemporary movement and hiphop. Flow aims to strengthen the Indigenous voice and engage young people through a contemporary retelling of ancestral stories around culture, land and water.

4. Mrs Lorraine Tye walan gugaa – strong goanna ($19,350)

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Wiradjuri Elder Aunty Lorraine Tye will undertake a creative and professional development project to allow her to integrate contemporary materials with her traditional weaving practice. Under mentorship by Jonathan Jones the artist will develop prototypes and procedures for scaling up her weaving work into largerscale, public art works.

5. Ms Johanna Clancy Beneath the Madhan ($15,000)

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Beneath the Madhan is a 3-week creative development project to create a 30 minute solo performer Aboriginal dance, language and puppet show for children. Upon completion of the development period the work will be ready to tour schools, gallery and garden spaces, festivals and events.

6. Ms Penelope Evans Burnt Banksia Mob ($18,000)

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Penelope Evans will create an installation unprecedented in scale, size and numbers of her Burnt Banksia ceramic pieces for the forthcoming 4^thNational Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia in 2021. It will commensurate with the scale of the unprecedented fires and droughts in Eastern Australia.

7. 2 Rivers Pty Ltd Cultivating Creative Communities ($120,000)

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Cultivating Creative Communities is a professional development program to develop and promote access for regional and remote artists and art workers to increase their skills and networks. This program includes mentoring and workshops with professional Aboriginal artists and art workers resulting in exhibitions and performances across the region.

Projects (1): $19,990

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Kirkala-Pithiluku Aboriginal Corporation Grassroots producing Arts and Crafts ($19,990)

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Kirkala-Pithiluku Aboriginal Corporation (KPAC) will run a program of art and crafts classes with the grassroots Aboriginal community in Bourke to produce art and craft products to showcased in their gallery.

Classical Music recipients (6): $153,810

1. The Metropolitan Orchestra Incorporated. TMO 2020 Infrastructure and Sustainability
Development ($53,000)

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The Metropolitan Orchestra provides outstanding performance opportunities for its musicians, accessible first-class musical offerings to audiences of all ages and development opportunities supporting NSW artists, composers, conductors and administrators. The funding will strengthen TMO’s business capacity, building their corporate partner and philanthropic income for long-term sustainability and continued artistic growth.

Projects (5): $100,810 1. Mr Andrew Blanch. Latin American Guitar Music (commissioning, presentation and recording) ($16,250)

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Sydney-based composer Daniel Rojas will write a Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, inspired by Latin American music, for performance and recording by soloist Andrew Blanch with Orchestra de Camara de Valdivia (Chile). The work will also be performed in Spain, Newcastle, Sydney and Melbourne.

2. austraLYSIS Productions Inc. Dualling: Recording duets for musicians, computers and other media ($19,500)

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austraLYSIS will create a commercial album of new improvised and composed duets. The duets will be performed in innovative human and posthuman combinations by two musicians - one musician duetting with a computer, one musician duetting with another medium (poetry or visual images) or one musician duetting with prerecorded environmental sounds.

3. Dr Alana Blackburn. Regrowth - New multimedia work for recorder ($19,000)

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A collaboration between recorder player Alana Blackburn and composer Ros Bandt to provide an opportunity for regional NSW community members affected by drought, floods and fire to have their voices heard in a poetic and respectful way. The project aims to contribute to the diversity of cultural expression and audiences.

4. New Steel City Strings Inc. Celebration of Youth 2021 ($26,160)

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SCS is a 25-person ensemble embedded in regional NSW – members, players and audiences reside in the Illawarra/ Shoalhaven/ Wingecarribee regions. Their work reflects the lives and experience of the people in the region.

SCS will contract local professional musicians, provide employment and opportunities to perform as soloists, participate in the creation of new work, arrange existing works, and mentor young players. They will program work of local composers, who will also adjudicate the composition competition for this project.

5. Prof Liza Lim. Re-imagining the String Quartet Festival ($19,900)

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Re-imagining the String Quartet Festival will bring the acclaimed JACK Quartet (USA) together with Australia’s next-generation of string quartets and composers, for a series of masterclasses, mentoring workshops and performances. Situated in NSW’s premier music institution, the experience will foster Australian voices and allow international connections to blossom.

Contemporary Music recipients (12): $275,763

Projects (12): $275,763
1. Music Council of Australia Pty Ltd. Music: Count Us In - Building a Direct Sales Capability
($15,000)

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The participation program Music: Count Us In is a music in schools’ program, with over 1,000 NSW schools registered, supporting teachers to deliver inventive, creative and enjoyable music lessons in the classroom. Support for this project will build the capability to charge schools a small $2 per student rate, preventing the program from closing.

2. Stonewave Taiko Inc. Bega Big Matsuri ($18,980)

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Professional Taiko Drumming Duo, YuNiOn will travel to Bega Valley throughout 2020 to 2021 to create community spectacular event 'Bega Big Matsuri’ with community-based Stonewave Taiko and their director David Hewitt. The project will have wide community participation and will also incorporate amateur community taiko players from Sydney.

3. Mr George Tillianakis. SOFT PEDAL II ($13,250)

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SOFT PEDAL II is an electronic/experimental sound performance night at the Blacktown Arts Centre. Four new artists will perform with various technology/ instrumentation to generate sound/imagery. SOFT PEDAL is a Western Sydney focused event in order to develop new audiences for a craft that primarily relies on inner city audiences.

4. Dr Jeremy Rose. Second album creation and release plan ($19,950)

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A video, album recording, album release and three concerts for a major new composition for Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra. The project creates an innovative work that explores traditional Korean drumming in a contemporary jazz music context whilst showcasing the emerging talents of Sydney's jazz and creative music performers.

5. Mr Jake Savona. Havana Meets Kingston II: uniting musicians of Cuba and Jamaica ($14,000)

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Jake Savona will be working on Havana Meets Kingston II, which is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut album released in 2017. Havana Meets Kingston is a world-first collaboration between Jamaican, Cuban and Australian musicians, with Jake as musical director.

6. MusicNSW Inc. MusicNSW Regional Music Officer Program Phase 2 ($50,000)

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The Regional Music Officer Program employs three music champions living and working in regional NSW to build capacity and broker relationships within their local industries through on-going, on-the-ground support. This application seeks support for Phase 2 between the scheduled pilot end and new multi-year funding in 2021.

7. Ms Alexandra Spence. Sound Art Performance and Skills Development via Residency &
Touring ($10,303)

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Alexandra Spence will develop her skills in synthesis and recording through residencies at MESS (Melbourne) and renowned electroacoustic studio EMS (Stockholm). She will then develop and tour an innovative sound-art performance through Northern Europe, including a performance with seminal musician David Toop at Cafe Oto in London, culminating in national performances with Liquid Architecture and Humming Grotto.

8. Free Broadcast Inc. FBi Radio - Studio Refurbishment ($70,000)

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FBi Radio's studio refurbishment project aims to transform the existing broadcast studio into a vibrant content creation space for Sydney’s emerging creators and artists to learn, perform and create new work across live and on demand platforms.

9. Mr John Prest. Sampling Improvisation ($17,340)

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In partnership with Studios 301, Sydney’s premier recording facility, John Prest will conduct improvised recording sessions with a diverse group of NSW based musicians at the forefront of jazz; electronic and classical music. These recordings will create the original score for a dance work that is currently in development.

10. Ms Martha Zwartz. Martha Marlow album launch tour ($17,950)

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Singer-songwriter Martha Marlow will tour regional NSW and the ACT, in support of the release of her debut album.

11. Mr David Hewitt. Zeeko: The Whale and the Curlew- Creative Development ($18,990)

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Musicians of Zeeko along with Jo Turner, writer, director and dramaturg, will undertake a collaborative creative development to produce 'The Whale and the Curlew'. It is an original 70-minute children's show integrating music and theatrical elements aimed at 5 to 12-year-olds/family audiences, located in Western Sydney and Regional NSW, which deals with climate change.

12. Mr Austin Oting Har. Act: 1 Invocation - The Ghost Trilogy ($10,000)

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Austin Oting Har will conduct the premiere of his opera at the world-renowned experimental music festival Berlin Atonal in August 2020 in Kraftwerk, the ex-power plant of former East Berlin. Austin’s ensemble comprises of ancient, orchestral, and electronic instrumentalists and opera vocalists from Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Cambridge University.

Dance & Physical Theatre recipients (7): $284,669

Annual Organisations (2): 125,500
1. Precarious Inc. Organisations Artistic Funding for Circus Monoxide ($75,000)

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The 2020-21 Precarious Inc. program will employ a full-time creative to support youth troupes' touring/performance, professional artist's productions, and programs involving refugees and women. The performances will occur at Mullumbimby Circus festival, Wollongong Speigeltent, Refugee Week and Vivalagong. This program will also have a special youth training camp to promote youth circus collaboration.

2. ReadyMade Works Inc. Annual Program 20/21: The Artist-led Home for NSW Independent
Dance ($50,500)

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Filling crucial gaps in the sector, the ReadyMade Works 20/21 annual program will provide important infrastructure and programming for NSW's independent dance artists and enabling this much-needed centrally located dance hub. The program will include residencies, commissions, training and presentations, dedicated to improving the viability and vitality in NSW independent dance practice.

Projects (5) : $159,169
1. FLING Physical Theatre Inc. Aftermath - Creative Development ($26,000)

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Aftermath will be a new creative development project for FLING Physical Theatre to respond to the Bushfires of 2020. The Physical Theatre will explore the aftermath of this experience on the community, on relationships with the land, and look at how they can tell these stories from their experiences through dance & verbatim theatre.

2. Ms Sara Black. Double Beat ($35,309)

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This will be a final development and presentation of Double Beat, comprising of a contemporary dance trio of three women, choreographed by Sara Black and presented by FORM Dance Projects’ 2020 Dance Bites program. Double Beat explores the heart, pulse, and indomitable force of life, the limits of physical bodies and habitat.

3. Ms Jasmin Sheppard. The Complication of Lyrebirds ($40,000)

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The presentation of dancer/choreographer Jasmin Sheppard's new work The Complication of Lyrebirds is a contemporary dance work that looks at the social expectations of what it means to look and sound Aboriginal, through the appropriate vessel of the story of the Lyrebird. With partners Campbelltown Arts Centre and Sydney Festival.

4. Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre. '"O, How I Dreamt of Things Impossible" Production
Funding ($38,860)

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Create NSW will support production costs for Sprung!! Integrated Dance Theatre's new work in the 2020 NORPA Season, which will include quality design elements and access costs for multisensory enhancements. The work explores the hopes, dreams and challenges of 7 dancers with a disability by working closely over a 5-year period with the Artistic Director, Michael Hennessy.

5. Ms Riana Head-Toussaint. Underwheel (creative development) ($19,000)

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Underwheel brings together wheelchair users, skaters and BMXers in a dynamic work that is part intervention of public space, and part performance. Underwheel will invite communities to celebrate the movement of people who are so often relegated to the fringes of society. The Underwheel project challenges misconceptions, uninformed expectations and double standards.

Literature recipients (5): $155,000

1. Think+DO Tank Foundation Limited. 2020/21 Annual Funding Think+DO Tank Foundation
($75,000)

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Think+DO Tank Foundation will become a stronger, more sustainable and effective organisation. Funding will be utilised in hiring new specialist, developing and presenting new original multilingual works (residencies/self-produced), delivering responsive multilingual creative community programming via outreach and developing sectoral capacity through workshops and publication.

Projects (4): $80,000
1. Byron Writers Festival. Byron Writer's Festival's StoryBoard: 2021 ($50,000)

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StoryBoard is a free creative writing program fostering creativity and literacy in the lives of regional children in northern NSW, creating next-generation readers, writers and thinkers. Storyboard aims to continue this work, which has brought authors, illustrators and poets into schools and libraries, reaching 20,000+ regional NSW young people.

2. International Performing Writers Association. Australian Poetry Slam (APS) - NSW Regional
Tour ($20,000)

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A tour of poetry slam programming of up to 20 Artists across regional NSW, culminating with two selected participants that will perform at the Sydney Opera House.

3. Ms Tanya Vavilova. You Were Such a Happy Child ($7,000)

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A collection of essays examining heartbreak, loneliness and everyday injuries in the context of navigating female friendships, dating in the tech age, share housing and relationships with kin as a first-generation migrant, lesbian and artist.

4. Ms Alison Jane Smith. We like the lake ($3,000)

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Ali Jane Smith will research and write a suite of poems about Lake Illawarra. These poems will be submitted to journals, and performed at poetry readings, with the potential to become a stand-alone publication.

Multi-arts and Festivals recipients (12): $686,889

1. Arab Theatre Studio. 2020/21 Annual Organisation Funding for Arab Theatre Studio: OPEN
DAR ($74,050)

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OPEN DAR will creatively develop new works by an ensemble of Arab artists via three multi-artform streams of engagement, culminating in multi-site installations and performances across Granville. The aim is to generate open and inclusive contemporary creative spaces that nurture, develop and platform Arab artists and artistic innovation and experimentation.

Projects (11): $612,839
1. Arts Northern Rivers Inc. Rappville Recovery ($90,000)

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Arts Northern Rivers will deliver an artist-led placemaking project in Rappville - a Richmond Valley community devastated by bushfires in October 2019. The artist will consult with community to develop a creative response to the tragedy with the aim of attracting visitors back to the region.

2. Wingham Akoostik Music Festival Inc. Expansion of Wingham Akoostik Music Festival
($50,000)

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Wingham Akoostik Music Festival INC will present the 2020 Akoostik Festival: a vibrant three-day music event engaging the Mid Coast regional community in arts and cultural activities as creators, participants and audience members. Skilled arts workers will develop talent and ignite collaborations to expand/nurture experience and opportunity regionally.

3. Dr Debra Keenahan. 'Shattered' - Little Big Woman Smashing Expectations ($36,210)

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'Shattered' is a video installation representing the lived experience of a woman with dwarfism. Presenting her physicality and resilience to retain dignity whilst navigating a world of provocations, this work uses metaphor and monologue with soundscape, to capture the exertion and psychological strategies for this woman to survive and thrive.

4. Australian Performance Exchange Inc. Game of I-Lands ($19,999)

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Australian Performance Exchange collaborates with Performosa, Taipei, to develop a new multi-media/science-arts performance about how the South China sea conflict impacts on the sea and marine life below. Stage 1 is a three-week creative development with five Australian artists and Taiwanese, Filipino and Indigenous Taiwanese artists in November in Taipei.

5. Eastern Riverina Arts Inc. Arbour Festival (Working Title) ($105,705)

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The Snowy Valleys region lost its foremost attraction, the iconic Sugar Pines Plantation in recent bushfires. Arbour is a 50-day festival of renewal, activating a key site in the Snowy Valleys with a mix of ephemeral, performance and time-based artworks by professional local artists affected by bushfires.